Humility Before Honor & Riches! Jesus Teaches About Humility — Lessons From Luke 14

Jesus Teaches about Humility

Luke 14:7-35 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁷When Jesus noticed that all who had come to the dinner were trying to sit in the seats of honor near the head of the table, he gave them this advice: ⁸“When you are invited to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the seat of honor. What if someone who is more distinguished than you has also been invited? ⁹The host will come and say, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then you will be embarrassed, and you will have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table!

¹⁰“Instead, take the lowest place at the foot of the table. Then when your host sees you, he will come and say, ‘Friend, we have a better place for you!’ Then you will be honored in front of all the other guests. ¹¹For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

¹²Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward.

¹³Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

¹⁴Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you”
Luke 14:13-14

Psalm 80 New Living Translation (NLT) —Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock

Psalm 80

For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.”
¹Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock.
O God, enthroned above the cherubim,
    display your radiant glory
²    to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Show us your mighty power.
    Come to rescue us!
³Turn us again to yourself, O God.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.
⁴O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,
    how long will you be angry with our prayers?
⁵You have fed us with sorrow
    and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
⁶You have made us the scorn^[a] of neighboring nations.
    Our enemies treat us as a joke.
⁷Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.
⁸You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine;
    you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
⁹You cleared the ground for us,
    and we took root and filled the land.
¹⁰Our shade covered the mountains;
    our branches covered the mighty cedars.
¹¹We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea;
    our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.^[b]
¹²But now, why have you broken down our walls
    so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?
¹³The wild boar from the forest devours it,
    and the wild animals feed on it.
¹⁴Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
    Look down from heaven and see our plight.
Take care of this grapevine
¹⁵    that you yourself have planted,
    this son you have raised for yourself.
¹⁶For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
    May they perish at the sight of your frown.
¹⁷Strengthen the man you love,
    the son of your choice.
¹⁸Then we will never abandon you again.
    Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
¹⁹Turn us again to yourself, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.